The Wing drone delivery system developed by google is being used to deliver customer’s needs.
Run by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. the drone delivery service had been running a test program for several months before the coronavirus pandemic.
Now wing’s drones are being used to deliver essentials such as medicine, baby food, canned tuna, toilet paper, toothpaste and pasta for people living around the town of Christiansburg in rural Virginia.
Wing has seen a significant increase in requests for deliveries since the coronavirus outbreak began.
To reduce transmission, people have been asked to avoid contact with people outside of their household. Drone delivery allows people to buy essential items without leaving their house or putting delivery people at increased risk.
Customers submit an order via an app, prompting a drone to fly to a delivery facility to pick up the items packed in a specially designed cardboard carrier.
Laden with its package, the drone flies to its destination at altitude, before dropping and hovering at a height of seven meters above the ground to deliver its cargo.
The package is lowered on a tether and automatically released. There is no need to interact with the drone or unclip the package before the drone flies off and returns to its base.
